Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of their respective powers thereby preserving a just balance between the powers granted to this Government and those reserved to the States and to the people.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.